Anne Graham Lotz famous quotes

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Forgiving

For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Expression #Giving #Mouths

For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Christian #Believe #School

The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#People #Giving #Church

Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Jesus #Giving #Use

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Teenager #People #Trying

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Father #Son #Secret

My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Eye #Imagination #Preparation

Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mistake #Moving Forward #Perfect

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Change #Real #Waiting

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Finding God #Findings

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Sacrifice #Giving #Effort

It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Children #Class #Cities

You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams!
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Christian #Dream #Father

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Exercise #Needs #Like You

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Hope #Jesus #Pain

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Religious #Home #Order

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Opportunity #Giving #Suffering

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Jesus #Prayer #Reading

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Book #Writing #Goal

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Jesus #Eye #Doors

In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Purpose #Want #Scripture

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Reading #Writing #Blessing

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Christian #Spiritual #Jesus

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Christian #Omnipotence #Easy

I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Daughter #Daddy #Special

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Believe #Men #Evil

I believe that our heavenly Father, our Savior, saved my mother from loneliness because of her daily walk with the Lord Jesus, He was the love of her life. I saw that in her life. It was her love for the Lord Jesus, with whom she walks every day, that made me want to love Him and walk with Him like that.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mother #Jesus #Father

Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mother #Husband #Children

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Pain #Believe #Life Is Good

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Christian #Knowing #Where You Are Going

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Suffering #Praying #Sometimes

When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#God #Christian #Heart

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Men #Thinking

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Strong #Storm #World

If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Spiritual #Stress #Thinking

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Healthy #Problem #Life Is

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#God #Christian #Faithful

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Spiritual #Morning #Focus

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Forgiveness #Jesus #Forgiving

I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Prayer #Husband #Crazy

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mother #Children #Husband

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Book #Ministry #Nonprofits

The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mother #Blessed #Blessing

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Jesus #Mean #Emotional

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Mean #Blessing #Church

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Leader #Church #Scripture